188 REMARKS AND Ol'INIGNS. 



There are three kinds of" dolphins in these seas, with 

 a white, red, and bkick belly. As soon as any of these 

 animals are observed from Ulea, small boats, to 

 about the number of eighty, put out to sea, surround 

 the herd, drive it on the shore, and, when they have 

 approached it near enough, they pelt the animals 

 with stones till they have thrown themselves on 

 shore. In this manner they catch great numbers 

 of them. Their flesh is considered a great delicacy. 

 In the cutting up, particular rules have to be 

 observed. A wrong cut causes the animal to keep 

 from the island for a certain time. At Svilick, 

 where the reef has only a narrow entrance, these 

 animals are driven into the lagoon, and none of 

 them are killed until a certain number (about fifty) 

 are caught. This cliase is executed on the islands 

 belonging to Ulea, with particular success. In the 

 others the art is not so well understood. The dol- 

 phins sometimes ascend the rivers of Eap, when 

 the inhabitants intercept their return with nets, 

 and harpoon them.* 



The domestic fowl is met with on all the Caro- 

 line islands, though the inhabitants do not under- 

 stand how to derive any particular advantage from 

 it. Against the account of Cantova, who reports 

 to us what he heard himself from the natives of 

 Eap, that a kind of crocodile is worshipped, or 



* The inhabitants of Eap have large nets for fishing, which 

 arc nut, and perhaps coukl not, be used on the low islands. 



